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- HKFree
- Windows Monitor
- Ver 1.10
-
- HKFree Windows Monitor was born out of the need for me, a programmer, to be
- able to examine many aspects of the Windows environment while programming or
- launching or working without invoking all of the 4-5 other Windows utilities
- that each seperately show a piece of the Windows puzzle.
-
- The following features were available in Ver 1.00:
- - Icon with GDI resources and System Clock.
- - System Information Screen
- - Memory Management screen (Global, Paged, Virtual) with a Global
- Memory Compact option.
- - Resource Detail screen that lets you walk through the Global and Local
- heap values.
- - Windows List much like System spy showing all active Windows in your
- system and relevant information.
- - Task List that shows Task and Handles with a Task Termination feature
- to eliminate Hung/Looping tasks.
-
- These new features are available in Ver 1.10
- - Configurable Icon, you can see Date, Time, GDI% or User% on any line
- of the Icon.
- - Network Mapping. Option to interrogate Network connection and display
- a list of all attached servers (Novell).
- - Disk Mapping. Modified System info screen to map all disks and show
- a percentage of disk free as well as available and total disk size.
- - Windows Detail. You can select a window from the windows list and get
- a detailed report on its resources, memory allocation, size, position
- and handles.
- - Option to make the Icon 'On Top' of all others.
- - Option to change the Icon refresh rate.
-
- The key problem was how to show information in a way that minimized the
- impact on my already FULL screen and also didn't tie up valuable resource
- space or memory.
-
- At the same time I thought it might be nice to show the system time since
- that would get rid of 1 icon (the clock) while using the timer hook that
- I grabbed anyways for the Windows monitor.
-
- So HKFree was born. (By the way HK stands for House Keeper which is a Windows
- shareware program I wrote).
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- Installing HKFree Windows Monitor:
-
- 1. Copy the TOOLHELP.DLL file into your Windows directory or Windows\System
- directory. This is a benign Borland Library that is used for some system
- calls. Must be present in order for HKFree to run.
-
- 2. Create an HKFree directory (if desired).
- 3. Copy HKFREE.EXE to the directory you chose to place it.
- 4. Return to Windows.
- 5. Using Program Manager, add HKFree to your STARTUP group.
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- What does HKFree display:
-
- The Icon
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-
- The Icon is split into a Top and Bottom Line as well as the Name Line.
- The Top Line shows the available GDI resources while the Bottom line
- displays the system time as a default. The Name Line will default to
- 'Windows Monitor' however all the various data shown on the Icon can be
- changed using the Configuration option on the Menu.
-
- The Icon is updated every 1/2 second however the display is only updated
- if the Available resources or the time changes. (Other resource monitors
- flash every second or so which bugs the bytes out of me!).
-
- Clicking the Left Mouse button on the HKFree icon will bring up a MENU
- with the HKFree reporting options.
-
- Configuration
- -------------
-
- You can use configuration to set up how the Windows Monitor Icon looks
- and operates. For each of the 3 status areas of the Icon (Top Line,
- Bottom Line and Name) you can chose either Resource or Date/Time
- information. The Icon will immediately change (even in the background)
- when you make a selection.
-
- When you select Date/Time or GDI/User data for the Icon Name they will
- display more complete information than what fits in either the Top or
- Bottom line of the Icon.
-
- Refresh Rate: Windows Monitor will check on the Icon values every 1/2
- second by default, however you can lower or raise the rate as you see
- fit. Note that you will use more processing cycles if you lower the
- refresh rate.
-
- Icon On Top: If you select the Icon On Top button it will force the
- Windows Monitor Icon to be On Top of every other Window that is
- displayed on your screen including Word,Excel,Program Manager, etc.
- The only drawback with this option is that you can not Un-On-Top it
- without shutting down Windows Monitor and starting a fresh copy. This
- is due to a quirk in the Windows API call that doesn't quite act like
- the documentation says.
-
- System Information
- ------------------
-
- Windows Version.
- - You better be on at least 3.1 or you deserve to crash....
-
- Windows Mode.
- - You would be suprised on what Mode some systems are running.
-
- CPU Type.
- - 80x86 to 80486.
-
- CoProcessor.
- - Is a co-processor present??
-
- Dos Version.
-
- Logged Disk Drive and Directory.
- - Calls the system to find out the DEFAULT drive (On a network this
- usually will give the Logged drive) as well as the current working
- directory.
-
- Disk Map.
- - This List Box will map out all Physical and Logical drives available
- to you. In addition each drive will show the % Disk Free (in Kb) as
- well as the available and total Kb on that drive.
-
- Network Information
- -------------------
-
- This option was added by request of several corporate users that had
- Networks installed.
-
- Network: Will show the type of Network software that is running on
- the system including Netware,NetBois and PCLan. Other network types
- will probably appear as 'Unknown'. A message will appear if your
- network software is loaded but no network connection is made.
-
- Attached Servers: For Novell networks this will List the servers to
- which you currently have access.
-
- Resource Detail
- ---------------
-
- Global Heap Values.
- - Displays the number of Heap items, the number that are LRU (Least
- recently used).
-
- If you Click the mouse on the 'Next Global Heap' button you will
- scroll through the Global Heap items. Each of these relates to a
- resource/window..
-
- System Heap.
- - Heap % Available for User.
- - Heap % available for GDI. (Resource space free)
-
- Local Heap Values.
- - Few Global Heap items will actually have Local Heap declared.
- If one does the Local Heap window will show the number of local
- Heap items and the the 'Next Local Heap' key will ungrey itself.
-
- You can then press the 'Next Local Heap' key to scroll thru the
- Local Heap values until the 'Last Local Heap' Messagebox appears.
-
- List of All Windows
- -------------------
-
- If you are familiar with Systems SPY now distributed with Windows then
- you will understand the information listed. Since every window has a
- handle it was relatively simple to Enumerate the windows and list the
- information that would be useful to us.
-
- The fields shown in the List Box are:
-
- Window Type.
- Types include 'Top Level', 'Icon', 'Popup' and 'Child'.
- Handle.
- - The windows handle.
- Parent Handle.
- - Don't expect this windows parent to preceed this window in the
- list, sometimes it will appear farther along. Top Level windows
- will have a parent handle of 0000.
- Class Name.
- - The resource or window class name.
- Windows Title.
- - This is the title the programmer gave the window, icon, dialog
- box or button, ie: what usually appears on the screen below
- the icon box.
-
- If you select any Window listed you can then press the 'Detail' button
- located on the bottom right of the screen. This will provide you with
- the 'core' details of the window you have selected:
- - Window Style. These are the Resource attributes of the window you
- have selected.
- - Class Style. The resource attributes of the Window Class.
- - Windows Function.
- - Extra Allocation.
- - Window Position and Size.
- - Handle List.
-
- Memory Information
- ------------------
-
- Free Global Memory.
- - Calculated thru a call to 'GetFreeSpace' function. Shows the
- amount of free memory in the Global Heap.
-
- Paged Memory.
-
- Virtual Memory.
-
- Compact Global Memory Button.
- - Compacts Global Memory and removes discardable segments. When it
- is finished a message box appears for confirmation.
-
- Task List
- ---------
-
- Displays a List Box with the Task Name, its Handle and its Parents
- Handle.
-
- Press the OK button to End
-
- Select a Task and Press the TERMINATE TASK button to eliminate the
- selected task from Windows. This has been useful while developing
- windows applications that tend to Hang/Choke/Loop which the normal
- Windows task termination feature would not terminate.
-
- Note this feature is dangerous!! None of the resources or memory
- allocated to the task are reclaimed, they become virtual dangling
- parcipicles (?) so I recommend that you reboot/restart Windows after
- doing this though I have seen an application reclaim resources when
- rerun.
-
- Resident Modules List
- ---------------------
-
- This option provides you with a current list of all modules that Windows
- has loaded. This includes programs, DLLs, Fonts, etc.. In addition
- you will see the full Name and Path of where the modules was loaded from.
-
- Use this option to determine extrenuous modules that have been loaded or
- incorrect versions of modules.
-
- About Windows Monitor
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-
- My speech......
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